FYI... Just because Norton Ghost is being discoed, it does not mean that your copy will stop working. (At the end of the day, these are 'disc duplicators' / bit copiers) There are a number of Open Source alternatives available... e.g Clonezilla , Partimage, FOG Projects etc etc etc.
Having said that.. My personal suggestion for you would be to re-think running stand alone machines and consider virtualization...... It may be a bit of a learning curve in the beginning, but moving forward in the future, it is going to save you a lot of time and grief. (since VM's are just another File..doing backup other maint. events are easy as pie ! ) Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom http://www.snappytelecom.net Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] > From: "Forrest Christian (List Account)" <[email protected]> > To: "af" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 11:06:30 PM > Subject: [AFMUG] Computer Image backup/restore > Normally backups around here are file-based, I.E. I want to make sure I don't > lose data. > I have a couple of computers now which I really would hate to have to rebuild > due to hardware failure. These are generally computers which run a machine, > such as the automatic test system and the pick and place machine. These > machines area all typically single-drive (non-mirrored) mostly off the shelf > hardware running various versions of windows. I'd like to take a full image, > and have at least a reasonable chance of putting it back on similar hardware > (probably same motherboard, maybe different storage medium) and it just work. > It used to be that the tool for this was Norton Ghost. But that's been > discontinued (and I understand it was going downhill before that). So I'm > looking for whatever the current modern version is. > I know there's a few tools out there which do this (Macrium, Acronis, etc). > But > the reviews are all littered with failures. Unfortunately it's hard to tell > how > much of this is lack of clue and how much of this is broken software. > I'm wondering if anyone has experience with using these modern equivalents? > Preferably something which runs on a range of Windows OS'es, and can dump the > image onto NAS. > -- > Forrest Christian CEO , PacketFlux Technologies, Inc. > Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 > [email protected] | http://www.packetflux.com
